‘Why’s He White?‘: Social Media Users React To Pale Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Wax Figure
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has just been turned into a white man.The Samoan actor became a new flagship for Musée Grévin in Paris, a museum specializing in wax figures that just unveiled his arguable likeness. Baffled social media users rightfully noted the skin tone of this figure was far lighter than Johnson’s actual pigment.“They whitewashed The Rock,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter.Countless users echoed the sentiment that the museum “turned the rock into a white man” and likened him to Mr. Clean, the Procter & Gamble mascot for all-purpose cleaners who — while certainly bald like Johnson — has historically been a white man.Johnson was born to a Black Nova Scotian father and a Samoan mother. The California-born actor, who made his bones as a wrestler before becoming a Hollyw...
